On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:55:27 -0000 "Margaret North" <famwizard@googlemail.com> wrote: Hello Margaret, > Yes, batch baptisms happened quite a lot didn't they? In this case I Certainly more often than some people might suppose. > am particularly interested to establish the abode of the family and the Most often, you'll get only the name of a parish for abode. But I'm sure you know that. > entry. It is so frustrating not being able to get to the relevant > archive to view the film or fiche of the register for ancestors who > didn't live within the Lancashire boundaries. I feel your pain, but we're so used to having it easy: Don't forget that genealogists have, up until recently, had to travel the length and breadth of the country to get the data they're after. Heaven forfend that ancestors should have came from, or travelled to, overseas! -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent"

Hello Brad, Yes, we do get used to having it easy with all that has come online in the last years and have to remember that the vast majority of it should only be used as a finding aid. I have been particularly spoiled with my research in that all of my maternal grandmother's family came from the Fylde area of Lancashire and my father's family from Manchester, Salford and other parts of Lancashire. The records office is a bus ride away and more recently we have been further spoiled here in Lancashire with Lancs BMD and also Lancashire Online Parish Clerk; for both of which I have been involved in transcribing records. When I began research about fifteen years ago I spent hours poring over the records on microfilm or fiche and love nothing more than a good Will. Those of single women or childless widows have been particularly helpful when they name all the nieces and nephews. My great-great-grandparents didn't marry until 1863 in Manchester Cathedral about fourteen years after the birth of their first child and I have always thought that they were too busy trying to make ends meet to afford to get married. We think life is difficult now but we don't know we are born in some ways do we? Best wishes, Margaret. -----Original Message----- From: suffolk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:suffolk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Brad Rogers Sent: 11 December 2010 18:06 To: Suffolk ML Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] REEVE lookup request On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:55:27 -0000 "Margaret North" <famwizard@googlemail.com> wrote: Hello Margaret, > Yes, batch baptisms happened quite a lot didn't they? In this case I Certainly more often than some people might suppose. > am particularly interested to establish the abode of the family and the Most often, you'll get only the name of a parish for abode. But I'm sure you know that. > entry. It is so frustrating not being able to get to the relevant > archive to view the film or fiche of the register for ancestors who > didn't live within the Lancashire boundaries. I feel your pain, but we're so used to having it easy: Don't forget that genealogists have, up until recently, had to travel the length and breadth of the country to get the data they're after. Heaven forfend that ancestors should have came from, or travelled to, overseas! -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message